The Urban Grind

Current events, politics and life in general from the perspective of a conservative woman in New York

 

Posted by on 25 Jan 2012

The Real Reason Obama Rejected The Keystone Pipeline

Mr Obama was simply paying back his friend Warren Buffet.

Warren Buffett, whom President Obama likes to cite as a fair-minded billionaire while arguing for higher taxes on the wealthy, stands to benefit from the president’s decision to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline permit.

Mr. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. owns Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC, which is among the railroads that would transport oil produced in western Canada if the pipeline isn’t built.

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The Obama administration rejected TransCanada’s request for a permit on Jan. 18, saying there was not enough time to review the proposal by Feb. 21, the deadline imposed by congressional Republicans eager to see the pipeline built. The decision came from the State Department, although Mr. Obama said he agreed with it.

TransCanada said it plans to submit another proposal that would avoid an environmentally sensitive route through Nebraska. The State Department had been reviewing the pipeline project tor three years when it rejected the permit.

If completed, the $7 billion Keystone XL would deliver 700,000 barrels a day of crude from oil sands in Canada to Texas refineries on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It would traverse about 1,600 miles.

The State Department’s review of the project said shipping oil via rail is more costly than delivering it to refineries by pipeline.

In response to Obama’s rejection of this deal, the GOP has put forth a bill that would transfer authority over the pipeline to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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Posted by on 25 Jan 2012

Michelle Obama’s $2,400 SOTU Dress

Via The Daily Caller

Here’s what Mrs. Obama wore to the State of the Union address.

Of course her office has no comment.

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Posted by on 25 Jan 2012

Fleabagger Democrats Strike Again — This Time In Indiana!

Rather than doing the job they were elected to do, Indiana’s Democrats fled the state rather than voting. They know they don’t have enough votes to prevent Indiana from becoming a right to work state. So rather than voting according to their beliefs, they high tailed it out of the state like spoiled children.

A final vote on the measure, which would ban union contracts from requiring nonunion members to pay fees for representation, had been expected on Tuesday in the House, which Republicans dominate 60 to 40. But with scores of union members and supporters filling the Statehouse halls in Indianapolis in protest, most Democrats refused to turn up for floor sessions — not once but twice on Tuesday afternoon.

The absences, only the latest in a series of absences and fierce partisan debate over the issue during the state’s legislative session, meant Republicans did not have enough members on the floor to do business; 67 representatives are required.

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Republicans say the right to work legislation would allow workers who do not wish to support unions not to be forced to and would entice new businesses to move to Indiana, which would be the first state in more than a decade to approve such a provision. Democrats say the measure, more common in states outside the traditional Midwestern manufacturing belt, would weaken unions and lead to lower pay and benefits for workers.

Get ready for the union goons and the dirty smelly hippies to take over the Statehouse and leave a huge mess.

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Posted by on 11 Jan 2012

Racist Barack and Michelle Obama

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Posted by on 09 Jan 2012

Greece Classifies Pedophilia As A Disability

For a country that’s bankrupt, I would think their government would have more important things to do than adding yet another group of people to be given financial assistance. But that’s what they’ve done.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek disabled groups are angry at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs.
The National Confederation of Disabled People called the action “incomprehensible,” and said pedophiles are now awarded a higher government disability pay than some people who have received organ transplants.

But the Labor Ministry on Monday said categories added to the expanded list — that also includes pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists and sadomasochists — were included for purposes of medical assessment and used as a gauge for allocating financial assistance.

I wouldn’t be surprised if our Democrats get some ideas from the Greeks.

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Posted by on 26 Dec 2011

Ex Ron Paul Aide Admits His Boss Was Against US Involvement in WWII and Against Retaliation for 9/11

Via Debbie Schlussel

First off, Ron Paul has accepted a $500 donation from the head of a neo Nazi American website Stormfront, and refused to return the money. He has also been photographed with the head of that site, Don Black and his son.

Now if anyone is going to dismiss that, remember that white supremacist support for Paul did not stop at one $500 donation. Ron Paul’s top internet organizer in Tennessee was the notorious “White Will.”

You should also know that Ron Paul endorsed the notorious America hating, virtually communist pro-Muslim terrorist Jew hater Cynthia McKinney in 2008.

Also according to Redstate, the other candidate of interest Paul endorsed was the Arab anti-capitalist Ralph Nader.

Furthermore Ron Paul spoke at the Arab American Institute Leadership Conference. Click on the link above where Debbie has the video of his speech addressing these terror supporters. I don’t think I can stomach posting it here.

Anyway, here’s what former Ron Paul aide Eric Dondero wrote to Debbie Schlussel about his former boss:

He is . . . most certainly Anti-Israel, and Anti-Israeli in general. He wishes the Israeli state did not exist at all. He expressed this to me numerous times in our private conversations. His view is that Israel is more trouble than it is worth, specifically to the America taxpayer. He sides with the Palestinians, and supports their calls for the abolishment of the Jewish state, and the return of Israel, all of it, to the Arabs. . . .

On the incident that’s being talked about in some blog media about the campaign manager directing me to a press conference of our opponent Lefty Morris in Victoria to push back on Anti-Jewish charges from the Morris campaign, yes, that did happen. The Victoria Advocate described the press conference very accurately. Yes, I was asked (not forced), to attend the conference dressed in a Jewish yarlmuke, and other Jewish adornments. [DS: Eric Dondero's mother is Jewish, and, therefore, he is Jewish according to Jewish law, but does not identify as such, only as "half-Jewish."]

There was another incident when Ron finally agreed to a meeting with Houston Jewish Young Republicans at the Freeport office. He berated them, and even shouted at one point, over their un-flinching support for Israel. So, much so, that the 6 of them walked out of the office. I was left chasing them down the hallway apologizing for my boss. . . .

Ron Paul is most assuredly an isolationist. He denies this charge vociferously. But I can tell you straight out, I had countless arguments/discussions with him over his personal views. For example, he strenuously does not believe the United States had any business getting involved in fighting Hitler in WWII. He expressed to me countless times, that “saving the Jews,” was absolutely none of our business. When pressed, he often times brings up conspiracy theories like FDR knew about the attacks of Pearl Harbor weeks before hand, or that WWII was just “blowback,” for Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy errors, and such.

I would challenge him, like for example, what about the instances of German U-boats attacking U.S. ships, or even landing on the coast of North Carolina or Long Island, NY. He’d finally concede that that and only that was reason enough to counter-attack against the Nazis, not any humanitarian causes like preventing the Holocaust. . . .

There is much more information I could give you on the sheer lunacy of his foreign policy views. Let me just concentrate on one in specific. And I will state this with absolute certainty:

Ron Paul was opposed to the War in Afghanistan, and to any military reaction to the attacks of 9/11.

He did not want to vote for the resolution. He immediately stated to us staffers, me in particular, that Bush/Cheney were going to use the attacks as a precursor for “invading” Iraq. He engaged in conspiracy theories including perhaps the [9/11] attacks were coordinated with the CIA, and that the Bush administration might have known about the attacks ahead of time. He expressed no sympathies whatsoever for those who died on 9/11, and pretty much forbade us staffers from engaging in any sort of memorial expressions, or openly asserting pro-military statements in support of the Bush administration. . . .

Ron was “under the spell” of left-anarchist and Lew Rockwell associate Joe Becker at the time, who was our legislative director. [DS: Lew Rockwell is an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, isolationist libertarian nut.] Norm Singleton, another Lew Rockwell fanatic agreed with Joe. All other staffers were against Ron, Joe and Norm on this, including Lizardo. At the very last minute Ron switched his stance and voted “Yay,” much to the great relief of Jackie and I. He never explained why, but I strongly suspected that he realized it would have been political suicide; that staunchly conservative Victoria would revolt, and the Republicans there would ensure that he would not receive the nomination for the seat in 2002. Also, as much as I like to think that it was my yelling and screaming at Ron, that I would publicly resign if he voted “No,” I suspect it had a lot more to do with Jackie’s threat, for she WAS Victoria. And if Jackie bolted, all of the Victoria conservatives would immediately turn on Ron, and it wouldn’t be pretty.

If you take anything from this lengthy statement, I would hope that it is this final story about the Afghanistan vote, that the liberal media chooses to completely ignore, because it doesn’t fit their template, is what you will report.

If Ron Paul should be slammed for anything, it’s not some silly remarks he’s made in the past in his Newsletters. It’s over his simply outrageously horrendous views on foreign policy, Israel, and national security for the United States. His near No vote on Afghanistan. That is the big scandal. And that is what should be given 100 times more attention from the liberal media, than this Newsletter deal.

If it’s a choice between Obama and Ron Paul, I’m staying home on Election Day.

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Posted by on 25 Dec 2011

Merry Christmas!

I wish my readers a happy, healthy, safe holiday.

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Posted by on 22 Dec 2011

Hero Who Stopped Underwear Bomber In Flight Sues Airlines AND Underwear Bomber

Good for Theophilus Maranga!

After all, that underwear bomber Farouk Abdulmutallab will most likely not be executed. He’ll spend his days in prison getting his three free meals a day, and better healthcare than many law-abiding Americans. So why not the hit those politically correct airlines, and Abdulmutallab where it hurts?

A New York State resident has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Delta Airlines and Air France for failing to stop a terrorist from getting on a plane in 2009. The terrorist in question is the infamous “underwear bomber,” who tried to blow up a plane bound for Detroit in 2009 using a bomb hidden in his undergarments.

Theophilus Maranga, a resident of the Hudson Valley community of Wappingers’ Falls, filed the lawsuit in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday. Along with the airlines, he is also suing the terrorist himself, Nigerian terrorist Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is awaiting sentencing after confessing to the terror plan.

Maranga is claiming damages for injuries he sustained in trying to stop the attack. Maranga tried to prevent the terrorist from blowing up the plane by tackling him and was injured in several places before he and others were able to subdue Abdulmutallab, who had sewn a packet of plastic explosives to his underwear. As the plane approached Detroit, he attempted to detonate the explosives, but only succeeded in burning his pants. Several passengers, including Maranga, jumped on him when they saw flames emerging from his leg. After being taken into custody, Abdulmutallab told authorities he had been directed by al-Qaeda, and that he had obtained the device in Yemen.

Maranga said in the lawsuit that he suffered rib injuries when he attacked the terrorist, and that he sustained nerve damage in his hands. In addition, he said, Abdulmutallab managed to break one of his teeth.

The incident occurred on December 25, 2009, as Maranga and 278 other passengers flew on Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Detroit. Northwest is owned by Delta, and Maranga is also suing Air France, which flew Abdulmutallab to Amsterdam.

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Posted by on 22 Dec 2011

French Government To Pay For Removal of Women’s Breast Implants

This article was so ridiculous that I had to post it.

Let me just say that I think breast implants are totally disgusting. The whole of idea of a healthy woman having her breasts cut open to insert foreign bodies of silicone into them is just gross! Also it makes finding cancerous lumps more difficult, never mind nursing a baby.

On another note, what is so bad about being flat-chested. Models are all flat chested, and they easily wear backless dresses, halter tops, and gowns with spaghetti straps. So I just don’t understand where these women are coming from.

Also, if you’re going have cosmetic surgery, it should be *your* job to know what you’re getting into. (That’s not to say doctors shouldn’t be sued for malpractice.) So if you (I used this word in the general sense) are SO stupid and SO desperate for a larger cup size that you would let some doctor put mattress grade silicone into your breasts, why should the government/taxpayers have to foot the fill?

Paris (CNN) — The French government will pay for tens of thousands of women to have silicone breast implants removed over concerns about a possible link to a rare form of cancer, the Ministry of Health said Wednesday.

French health authorities are due to make a recommendation Friday about whether women with implants by a company called Poly Implant Prosthese (PIP) must have them removed.
The ministry says about 30,000 French women have PIP implants, which are not currently approved for use in the United States.
According to a news release from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, PIP is now defunct. It says the company “used non-medical grade silicone believed by the manufacturers to be made for mattresses.”

The French government agency that evaluates the safety of medical products says 523 women have had them removed since a defect was discovered last year.
More than 1,000 implants have ruptured since then, the agency says.

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Women will only be reimbursed for new implants if they were originally for reconstructive surgery, the Health Ministry said.

What will these crazy French people think of next?

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Posted by on 22 Dec 2011

The Meaning of Chanukah

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